NORTH COAST, Calif. – On Tuesday a San Jose man was sentenced to state prison for the attempted murder of a California Highway Patrol officer in south Willits in December 2016.

Ryan Joseph Maxstadt, 29, was sentenced by Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Ann Moorman to 38 years, eight months to life in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office.

The sentence results from convictions by jury of attempted murder of a CHP officer, assault with a firearm on a CHP officer, personal discharge of a firearm, felon in unlawful possession of a firearm and vehicle theft, officials said.

The Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office said that, as allowed by the realignment laws enacted by the Legislature in 2011, Maxstadt was "serving" a county prison sentence for a felony conviction in Santa Clara County at the time the offenses were committed in Mendocino County.

He also has served two prior state prison sentences – one in 2010 and another in 2012, officials said.

The prosecutor who conducted the two jury trials leading up to Tuesday’s sentencing hearing is District Attorney David Eyster. The law enforcement team who investigated and put together the case was the California Highway Patrol, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, the Willits Police Department, the California Department of Justice crime laboratory and the District Attorney's Office’s own investigators.

Eyster offered special thanks to Stutchman Forensic Laboratory in Napa for expert forensic audio/video assistance and testimony.